What do people mean by sunbathing in autumn?

Sunbathing in autumn is a typical agricultural custom phenomenon with strong regional characteristics. Villagers living in mountainous areas have to use the front and back of houses and their own windowsills and roofs to dry or hang crops because of the complex terrain and little flat land in the village, which has evolved into a traditional agricultural custom phenomenon over time.

This special lifestyle and scene of villagers drying crops has gradually become the material pursued and created by painters and photographers, and created a poetic name "drying autumn".

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In addition to basking in autumn, some rural areas also have the custom of biting autumn and offering sacrifices to the god of the valley.

1. Biting autumn is also called gnawing autumn. On this day in early autumn, people get together to eat watermelons, autumn peaches, sweet potatoes and apples, which means biting autumn. There is also a saying that after eating autumn, autumn heat will not produce prickly heat. Whether biting autumn or gnawing autumn, it expresses people's joy at the arrival of autumn. There is a saying in the countryside that if beginning of autumn takes a bite, the autumn harvest will be bumper, which reflects the working people's hope for a bumper harvest in autumn.

2. Sacrificing autumn is a local folk custom, also known as offering sacrifices to the God of Heaven and Valley, or autumn fire and autumn society. Before and after beginning of autumn, people put cakes, fruits, steamed bread, rice, wine and incense at home or in the fields, offering sacrifices to the god of the valley and the god of the land, praying to bless the crops with good weather and abundant crops, and expressing the working people's good wishes for a happy life.

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